Winter Cosplay...gotta love it

Good Morning my darling dolls

Just a quick note while I eat my crumpets and honey....after the epic fail this weekend with trying to dye my annie wig I'm about to head out in the freezing cold Melbourne morning to find plan B.

Today's shopping list is 

1 Vorpal Blade

1 pink wig medium length

1 Black wig long

2 pairs black and white stockings

Fingers crossed my back up wig store as what I need, then its time to try my luck and my back up costume store for blade and a quick trip to china town for stockings.  

For the D.O.E crew I will also have my phone on me if you need supplies while I'm out cos we all know the clock is ticking.

Of course I may just have to jump into my fav comic book shop while I'm out. So wish me happy hunting dolls.

You did what?????

Greetings my Darling Dolls

Just a quick one today as I seem to be suffering from massive cosplay stress. With 13 days to go and lack of a bright pink wig for my Annie cosplay I attempted to dye one of my old blonde wigs pink.   Let's just say this was an epic fail.  After much time spent getting ink etc, mixing dye and carefully applying it to the fig, the colour just wouldn't hold.  

So yes, I still have an old blonde wig with light pink wig cap LOL.  Now I'm working on plan B as I don't have time to order a wig from my usual place in china.  Yep that means I hit the streets of Melbourne on my day off to find the closest wig at the right price.

Wish me luck as I head into a cosplayer's hell.....an cosplay ruined by not having the wig.

American McGee's Alice Madness

14 days my darling dolls!!!!!!

Alice is almost done....just have to add blood splatter, make necklace and make vorpal blade.  Hey at least the main cosplay is done.  Ok so we all know I'm going to be up late most nights from now on getting it all together as I'm still working on my other cosplays too.

At least for now I'm in a calmer place than I was 14 days out from supanova. Fingers crossed I don't have my usual "well everything is done and I've still got 3 days...guess this means I need to make another one" thinking.  

Hatsune Miku progress

15 days and counting my darling dolls till OzComicCon

As I'm a glutton for punishment LOL I decided not to wear the Annie (league of legends) cosplay I'm making, instead I figured I had my Hatsune Miku wig I would try and make an outfit for her for the event.  Plus I've just found out in the last few days about the impending release of her game in Australia this august, so I figured what a better time to showcase another outfit of hers.

Like many Hatsune Miku fans I have the base outfit, but after seeing so many people in it at the last con (not to mention having a 'fight' trying to explain she was a game first and not anime) I thought I would showcase an other side of her.  So with limited time and funds (see I am a budget cosplayer LOL) I hit my local discount stores to find the pieces I needed to build it.   

STAGE 1 - basic structure

So this is what I have so far.   There is still a lot to do like:

• make petticoat to give the skirt a fuller look
• add the white trim to the skirt and larger white music note
• attach braces and button detail
• make arm bands
• create bows for hair and shirt
• tweak my headphones so its just a mic

Yet I'm positive that this will be easy over the next few nights, as the main structure is done.

So I'm off to make a petticoat, wish me luck dolls.

Getting ready for PAX

Good morning my Darling Dolls, 

I thought it was about time I started to share some progress shots of what I', up to.  As PAXaus draws closer I feel like I have turned that corner with my Annie cosplay.  Personally I find there is this horrible time when you are working on a costume and try as you might it just doesn't seem to look right, then all of a sudden you look up at your work and BANG its turned the corner and now before your eyes your vision is starting to appear.

  

STAGE 1 - basic structure

And that's exactly what happened this weekend.  I'd been working on the base structure for Annie from League of legends, and yes the base was coming together but it just looked like a purple dress and nothing else.  Even my fellow gamers said "yeah its a good start but it's not Annie".  Then after a lunch break and more sewing they saw the collar and backpack go on, which finally got the response "yep now I see it".  

STAGE 2 - collar and backpack base

Sure I still have heaps of work to go before its ready for PAXaus, but its getting there.....slowly.  Needless to say I still have to add the details to the backpack, the design to the bottom of the skirt, the ears and leg warmers.  However, I am closer to the end than I was last week.  THANKFULLY!!!!

So in those few hours between sleep and work that's what I will be doing this week.  So if you see a zombie wandering round your town muttering "fabric...fabric" *in zombie voice* chances are its me.

Well I'm off to work, see you later my Dolls 

Happy Stitching!

Where is my time going?

Greetings my darling dolls.

Some how its mid June and I'm having the scary realization that its only 25 days until my next convention.  Sewing progress is going better than expected as I am scratch building all of my Cosplay outfits for these events.  Yep no buying for this little doll.

Needless to say my silence online has been due to working (9 to 5 job) and sewing like a crazy doll.  My friends and family are by now very used to me saying "I'm spending my time off sewing" or "nope I can't make it as there is a fabric sale I'm attending"  Of course I know its all worth it, and thankfully so do my friends when they see the final product.  

I'm also going to admit I have been watching an awful lot of youtube or fellow cosplayers over the last few weeks as the con-season in the USA is in full flight.  On the note a huge shout out to amazing cosplayer YaYa Han, hope your feeling better after your medical emergency last weekend.

So with 25 days and counting till Oz Comic Con I'm starting to tick off my to do list, but somehow for everything I mark off I seem to add something else.  Well at least the basics are done. 

Tickets...check. 

D.O.E members cosplay in progress....check

My cosplay in progress....check

Shopping list for cosplay....check

Leave request for work...check

I did have a giggle when my boss asked why I was putting in for leave saying "is it for another geek convention"  well duh!  However when I told her that William Shatner from Star Trek/Boston Legal was going to be there she almost lost her mind and said "of course you can leave, but can you get me an autograph".  Gotta love it when you get leave from work on the basis that your boss is a fangirl at heart.  LOL

Anyhow, apart from sewing like the wind I have to sort out my budget as it seems almost every week a great new star is attending.  Usually I go for the cosplay and to meet other like minded people, plus see 1 or 2 stars.  However OzComicCon has announced a huge group of stars that I am so excited to meet.  

My current must see list includes (in no particular order coz lets face it I adore all of them) and you may be surprised to know that most of these stars caught my interest in movies from about 20+ years ago.  

William Shatner (star trek 1966)

Its SHATNER!!! do i really need to explain and as if I was going to miss an opportunity to meet CAPTAIN KIRK!!!!!!!

Patricia Quinn (rocky horror picture show 1975)

Now for long standing friends again this is a no brainer as to why I want to meet her.  For all you others basically I was obsessed with this movie in high school.  Yep I have the VHS, DVD, BluRay of the movie plus multiple copies of the sound track; and to up the stakes my nickname in high school was Magenta (its even on my jersey from my final year).   

Cary Elwes (the princess bride 1987)

I have adored Cary since I first saw him in the princess bride back in the late 1980's.  Cary does hold a special place in my heart for the line "unlike some robin hood's I can speak in an English accent" from the movie Robin Hood-Men in tights.   I can warn everyone now I probably will tear up when I meet him and if he says the line "as you wish" from princess bride have St John's ambulance on stand by coz I'm probably going to faint.

Ron Pearlman (City of lost Children 1995)

A lot of people know Ron from movies like Hellboy and Star Trek:nemesis or even Sons of Anarchy.  Yet I will always remember him as One from City of lost children a french sci-fi fantasy drama.    Again a man who makes me go weak at the knees.

Little Nell Campbell (rocky horror picture show 1975)

Again a blast from my past and who hasn't seen her tap dance her way into your heart during the time warp.

To all the other stars coming like Robert Maschio (the todd from scrubs), Jeffery Combs (star trek), Tim Rose (Admiral "its a trap" Ackbar from star wars) and the gals from charmed I will do my best to get to your panels etc but I gotta go to my long standing loves first  ;-)

And if July wasn't already busy enough there is also PAX australian.  So by my maths its only 36 days till PAX Australia hits our shores for the first time ever.  Think E3 meets EB Games Expo but in honesty its "for gamers by gamers" as Banjo (good game ABC) would say.  

Now I've been reading the Penny Arcade comics online for years so when I heard that they were hitting the aussie shores with their expo of course I was going.  Not to mention some of my closet friends are hard-core gamers it wasn't really a hard sell to get us all together for it.

I'm not sure what to expect as I've never been to PAX before so its going to be fun to have that "first con" experience again.  And yes I will be cosplaying at it.

So stay tunned for my work logs and which characters will be attending each convention.

Luv you all my darling dolls
Tiki